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Race and Religion in Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Race and Religion in Star Trek Deep Space Nine As I watched Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 19 entitled Duet, I was struck by the parallels between the Cardassians and the Nazi’s. The idea of a labor … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Psychology, Religion
Tagged Armenia, Bajor, Bajoran, Bavaria, Benjamin Sisko, Cardassian, Caucasian, celestial temples, Christianity, Class, Deep Space Nine, Duet, Evangelical, Gene Roddenberry, Germany, Human Secularism, Hungarian, impose values, Jews, Kardashian, Mongolian, Nazi Concentration Camps, Nazi Experimentations, Nuremberg Trials, Prophets, Race, Religion, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Russian Gulags, Season 1 Episode 9, Star Trek, The United Federation of Planets, Vedek Winn, World War II, Wormholes, Zealous
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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The Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism Northrop Frye, 1957 It is impossible to learn literature because literature needs to be dis-furnished from the study of it—or criticism. Literary Criticism has many neighbors, including: Psychology and Sociology. Frye covers the Fictional Modes first. Myth, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology
Tagged Autumn, Christianity, Comedy, Dionysus, Drama, Fates, Frued, George Bernard Shaw, Gods, Heroes, Ironic, Irony, Jung, Literature, Lyric, Music, Myth, Northrop Frye, Oracle of Delphi, Oracles, Pagan, Pathetic Fallacy, Poetry, Prose, Psychology, Rhetoric, Rhythm, Satire, Sociology, Spring, Summer, Symbolism, Symbols, The Anatomy of Criticism, The Fabian Society, Thomas Hardy, Tragedy, Winter
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Madeline L’Engle
Madeline L’Engle Madeline L’Engle is one of my favorite children’s authors. I first read A Wrinkle in Time in 6th grade maybe. It was published in 1962 and my mother remembered reading it. In any case, I got a copy … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged A House Like A Lotus, A Ring of Endless Light, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Wind in The Door, A Winkle In Time, An Acceptable Time, Austins, Biblical, Biology, Calvin O'Keef, Cellular, Charles Wallace Murry, Christianity, Chronos, Conrad Aiken, Debbie Gibson, Disney Movie Awful, Druids, Echthroi, Enemy, Evil, Female Protagonist, Geeky Girl, Good, Greece, It, Kairos, Le Morte d'Arthur, Mad, Madeline L'Engle, Madoc, Many Waters, Meg Murry, Michael Ende, Moon By Night, Morning Song of Senlin, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Whosit, Native Americans, Nephilim, Noah, Nuclear Power, Phantom Menance, Polly O'Keef, Possession, Psalm 69:13, Runes, Sandy and Dennys Murry, Science, Seraphim, Silence Speaks A Thousand Words, Star Wars, Tesseract, The Arm of the Starfish, The Flood, The Force, The Neverending Story, The Nothing, The Time Quartet, The Time Quintet, The Young Unicorns, Time Travel, Unicorn, Welsh
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Ego and Archetype
Ego and Archetype Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche by Edward F Edinger came out in 1972. I read it in 2000. It proved very insightful and was very influential on me. Man’s consciousness was … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Psychology, Religion
Tagged Able, Alchemey, Alcohol, Alienation, Avarice, Cain, Catholic, Childish, Christ, Christianity, Confession, Cross, Dark Night of the Human Soul, Dependence, Development, Divine Victim, Drugs, Edward Edinger, Ego and Archetype, Ego-Self Axis, Envy, Eog, Father, Fire, Garden of Eden, Gluttony, Gnosis, Gnosticism, God, Greek Tragedy, Hegel, Holy Ghost, Hubrius, Individuation, Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche, Inferiority Complex, inflated ego, Irresponsibilty, Ishmael, Job, Jung, Jungian, Keirkgaard, Language, Lucifer, Lust, M L Von Franz, Man, Meglomaniac, Murder, Nirvana, objective, Pride, Prometheus, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Sacrificial, Satan, Self, Self-Destructive, Serpents, Seven Deadly Sins, Signs, Sloth, son, Sophia, St John of the Cross, subjective, Suicide, Symbols, tree of knowledge of good and evil, Tree of Life, Trinity, Wholeness, Wisdom, Wrath, Zeus
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Casilda of the Rising Moon
Casilda Once upon a time, around 1990, I read a book called Casilda of the Rising Moon by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino. I found the book at my local library. It was published in 1967. The cover intrigued me and … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Religion
Tagged 1966 Newbery Winner, 1967, 1990, April 9th, Canonized, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Casilda, Castile, Catholicism, Chest Disease, Christianity, Compassion, Cystic Fibrosis, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Falls From A Height, Healing Springs, Italy, King Alamun, Marvin Memorial Library, Mexico, Miracles, Moorish, Muslim, Past Life, Prisoners, Queen Isabel, Rising Moon, Spain, Toledo, Visions, Zoraida
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Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues Cari Gilkison, English 575: Post-Colonial Literature, Winter 1997 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie shows that there is no hope for Native Americans to redress the effects of colonization. Alexie feels that there is no hope of ever … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Religion
Tagged Ancestry, Big Mama, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Colonized, Freedom, God, Going off the Right Path, hope, Horses, Indian, junior, Native American, OSU, Post-Colonial Literature, Reservation, Roots, Rservation Blues, Screaming Horses, Sherman Alexie, Ten Commandments, Thomas, Urban Indian Blues, White Man, White Man's God, William Buckley, Winter 1997
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Common Sense
March 24, 2008 This week I’ve read Susan Jacoby’s Freethinkers and now her latest books, The American Age of Unreason. I’ve also read Thomas Paine’s book The Age of Reason, to which Jacoby’s title refers. Everyone should read Thomas Paine. … Continue reading
Atonement
December 10, 2007 Atonement Atonement is the name of the novel by Ian McGowan. I picked the novel up after seeing the preview for the movie on TV. The commercial reminded me of Damon’s House, so I looked up the … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Writing
Tagged Atonement, Boyd, Buddha, Buddhism, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Christianity, Christopher Hitchenson, Damon's House, Eddy, English Estate, Forgiveness, God is Not Great, Gothic Romance, Haunting, Hinduism, How Religion Poisons Everything, Human Secularism, Ian McEwan, Islam, Jesus, Karma, Lord or Legend, Love Affair, Madness, Rape, WWII
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